Nepotism is the tip of the iceberg, a mere side effect of the greed and pride that motivates these people when they exploit whole populations to increase their wealth and status, It all evaporates and lacks meaning, so these people are ultimately dissatisfied unless they do something kindly with their wealth, whereas courage and love and dedication endure when all else fails and people who are kind and loving are remembered fondly﻿

Wiki: Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have two daughters, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996) and Phoebe Adele (2002), and one son, Rory John (1999). I don't think he's letting Jen go at 16. Ashok and Arun got it - it can't be true, forwarded over 10yo and used to be about Rockefeller. 223 of you could read more.﻿

And too, this is not very nice, I wouldn't want a false story floating around about my family. Are we just jealous or gullible that we'd accept this at face value? Maybe he's been a bit monopolistic but he'd trying to give away half his wealth.﻿

how about the correlation to the feudal system of royalty marrying for political reasons?...the super-rich big business families are the new royalty....with lobbyists and donations, they truly control our laws/government.﻿

Wrong. Dad lies. When you sell what you don't have is when things go Wrong. Thats what is happening around the whole world today.We should go back to trading over reality, exchanging only what we posess in order to be respectful towards the rest... Towards life.

We should take this as an example of what has led the world to the current economical, ecological and spiritual crisis.

Please do not imitate neither of the characters of the above story. Be nice guys! =) And have a nice day.﻿